Fortunately, the government, being the government, mustered all our armed forces to seize the shuttle and intern the astronauts because they didn't have correctly stamped passports with the correct visas.

Unfortunately, once everyone was fed, they discovered that the pizza boxes made good lock-picks and the prisoners and astronauts recovered the shuttle and headed off into outer space where there was no police jurisdiction while the Prison Governor was called up to explain how everything went so very, very wrong while he was in charge.

Fortunately, the prison governor was very relieved to be relieved of his duties, and after pointing out that three months is an unacceptably long wait for the government to organize itself, went off to do something useful like earthquake & hurricane relief.